"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."

"That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."

"Midas's Law: Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately."

"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."

"You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet."

"It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits."

"The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room."

"It is a profound truth that in the quiet sanctuary of self-reflection, the soul finds its rhythm."